If you like revenge type thrillers, look up "death sentence" starring Kevin Bacon, this was the follow up film from James Wan, whos first film Saw (remember that) created a whole new horror franchise by itself....
Away from that there is a stone cold classic, "hellraiser" (1987 i think) by Clive Barker, steer clear of the rubbish follow ups, the original is in a class of its own, and i bet no-one here has ever heard of it...
"wolf creek issupposed to be based on actual events. "henry, portrait of a serial killer" likewise... There is a couple of serial killer biopics, "citizen x" the story of andrai chickatello, russias first documented serial killer and "to catch a killer", the true story of the hunt for John Wayne Gacy, all true and very gripping... Hope they get you started...
I dont remember how to screen grab, but no worry...
This is just gorgeous, its where the beatles might have gone had they stayed together... The band is Be Bop Deluxe, one of the finest bands you never heard of, this piece, taken from there "sunburst finish" album is called "crystal gazing", I defy anyone not to be taken by it...
Artist: Be Bop Deluxe Album: Sunburst Finish Track: Crystal Gazing
The man who owneed the heartache That lived on the stairs... Passed me in the night whistling "Memories of You"...
I stared to frightened to move For fear my eyes shown a light On the darkness he drew like a cloak All around his shoulders...
And the church on the corner Marked the time for the mother Who was giving birth to a child across the hall... And I waited half in anger, half in sadness For an answer to the call for help I had written on the wall
And the rain fell like jewels On the heads of all the fools Who wandered crazed with their souls ablaze for me... And the blessing of the hour Was the twilight and the tower With its golden bell form the bottom of the sea...
And the moon through the window of the bedroom Where lovers slumbered Made a silver dance of such dust beneath the bed...
And I waited for a moment in the lamplight, Crystal gazing Listening to their hearts And the changing of their breath.
Listening to their hearts And the changing of their breath.
D'ya know what Sal, ive not given it a thought much before Annies post, Ill take the time to read up on James Ellis's rituals a little later, as for weather he was before or after Albert Pierrepoint, i think he was before... On the subject of Hanratty, My sis braught him back to the house a couple of times, sure, id just have been a toddler then, but the folks remarked on what a nice chap he seemed to be...
Taking it all with a pinch of salt, on my mothers side, nothing outstanding... On my fathers side.... James Ellis, one time hangman at the Tower of london... Ruth Ellis, last woman to be hanged in England... And just for closers, my eldest sister dated James Hanratty, just before he (supposedly) committed the A6 murders in the 1960s...
So, a cheery little lot in all, anyone fancy a date with me now?...
Get youself in the forums, look, heres the thing... Im happy to confess im as handsome as a bulldog chewing a wasp, but i dont half get some views in the "wvm", because women get curious about what they read in a blokes written manner, im not saying its copper bottom guarenteeed your going to have them falling at your feet, but its going to do more than hiding under a bushell and thats would be a starter for a young buck like yerself wanting some date action...
Incidentally, though i havn't read your profile, do avoid cliche's, the whole "sensitive man in touch with womens feelings" is so dead in the water...Make people laugh, but be sincere with it, your sense of humour is your most valuable assett in the wicked world of dating (well, not forgetting nice breath and socks without holes in them)...
Fair play GS, your not afraid to throw out the hot topics...
My opinion for what its worth is a resounding "no"...
While im all for celebrating someones life, i do feel the prescence of a video camera at the funeral service or the wake is inappropriate, and this coming from a godless heathen like myself...
My abiding memories of funerals are the tears and sadness at the loss of loved ones (my parents, my brother in law and my friends father, like a second dad to me) I simply wouldn't feel comfortable seeing the raw emotions of berievment on display, weather for private viewing or close public viewing...
And as for wider public viewing of say celebrity mourning, well, ill let you ascess the merit of that kind of voyourism...Perhaps we should treat the dead with a degree of reverance, or then maybe im just a bit to sensitive about these things....
Love, (other than paternal and family, and of course my dogs!) is hardly a factor in my life, so the answer is i have no need to concern myself with traveling... So far as a date is concerned, it would have to be with a purpose, a show, a gig or a social get together, then within reason (a couple of hours drive) id pick up and travel to wherever the "whatever it is" is!....
Good to see a decent thought provoking thread on here once in a while...
Death, the great equalizer... As for me and my mortality, its going to happen soon enough, all i want is quick and painless!, In my sleep would be great but thats a luxury with our lifestyles these days...
My mum took 15 years to die with various debilitating illnesses, my dad, her constant carer and companion dropped dead on the doorstep of a heart attack after an illness free life.... So ive seen both sides of the dirt nap...
As for kids, its been well phrased already, there one of the best reasons for keeping your health and sanity in check, god forbid i ever became a burden financially or otherwise to my girls...
So, in summery, not being a religeous bloke, im not expecting any great shakes of an afterlife, i think were best measured by our time and our deeds while here on earth, so make each day count for something and when your time is up be able to say you had a full life and added more to the world than you took away.... Sure, maybe that last para is more for a phylosiphy thread, i dunno!...
BK all day long, but Hillbillies in Ennis is terrific, (chicken joint, but way betteer than KFC in my opinion)... Simply cant find a good Fish and Chip shop, though Mc'Donnaghs in Galway is supposed to be good.... Any tips for a good chipper in Limerick would be appreciated...
The answer to life, the universe and everything is 42. I did not make this up:* The second greatest computer of all time and space was built to tell the answer to the question of life, the universe and everything. After seven and a half million years the computer divulged the answer: 42.
"Forty-two! Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."
The computer informs the researchers that it will build them a second and greater computer, incorporating living beings as part of its computational matrix, to tell them what the question is. The result is the sentence "WHAT DO YOU GET IF YOU MULTIPLY SIX BY NINE".
"Six by nine. Forty-two."
"That's it. That's all there is."
Since 6 x 9 = 54, this being the question would imply that the universe is bizarre and irrational. However, it was later pointed out that 6 x 9 = 42 if the calculations are performed in base 13, not base 10.
"42" is often used in the same vein as a metasyntactic variable; 42 is often used in testing programs as a common initializer for integer variables.
There is a joke that perhaps there may have been some order of operations issues:
Six equals 1 + 5. Nine equals 8+1. So six * nine equals 1+5 * 8+1. 5*8 = 40. 1+40+1 = 42, the meaning of life.
In Lewis Carroll's book The Hunting of the Snark, (before Douglas Adams' tome was written) the baker left 42 pieces of luggage on the pier. 42 is also a sphenic number, a Catalan number and is bracketed by twin primes.
42 is the number you get when you add up all the numbers on two six-sided dice. This is showing that life, the universe, and everything is nothing but a big game of craps.
According to Google's calculator, the meaning of life is, indeed, 42. Weird.
* This was all actually made up by Douglas Adams in his comic science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Lest we forget the music!..... Some great songs over the last 50 years, culminating in what i think is a defining Cd of "covers" produced by the now musical director of the bond series, David Arnold.... Below is a link to follow up on, this may be of interest, featuring the talents of Aimee Mann (nobody does it better) Natacha Atlas (from russia with love) and the propellorheads (spybreak)... Great stuff, and highly recommended....
Good to see another Connery supporter nailing there colours to the mast...Pierce never quite did it for me, again, a good enough actor on the day, but where was the charisma (SC) or the pathos (Tim Dalton) or the safari suits (Roger Moore), or for that matter, the kilt!, (George Lazenby).... Though saying that, Bardem as the baddie, if he can half way reprise his controlled onscreen menace that was the best part of "no country for old men" this could be the best Bond in quite some while...
From what ive just been reading, MGM have been having some "money issues" of late, but are now talking about a franchise reboot with bi-annual bond film production in mind (Daniel Craig still in the frame so far as i can make out)....
Production of Skyfall was at a standstill for over a year due to MGM's financial troubles and bankruptcy. MGM was close to $4 billion in debt and couldn't front any money for production. (MGM has a 50% stake in EON, meaning that EON couldn't make a move until MGM's affairs were settled.) In late 2010 MGM underwent bankruptcy proceedings, and in early 2011 deals were made for production and distribution of MGM's films. (While officially an MGM film, Skyfall will be distributed by Sony.) The last film, Quantum of Solace, was released in 2008, making for a four-year gap between films.
In response to Dazchef's comments...
"Skyfall" will be released in october of this year and is directed by Sam Mendes, also featuring in "Bond 23" will be Ralph Fiennes and the rather superb Javier Bardem, I wonder, are things looking up?....
"Do you expect me to talk?".... "No Mr Bond, i expect you to die!"....
The above famous exchange between Auric Goldfinger and James Bond has a certain contemporary ring about it nearly 50 years later.... Who amoung us hasn't sat down to a Bond film with that certain comfortable "slippers and cocoa" feeling, Sure, we would all have a favourite film / scene / line of dialogue that sums up the very essence of our perception of what made the worlds most famous secret agent so enduring....
From the early 60s (well, 1962 to be precise), Bond films have been thrilling the audiences and pushing the story telling bounderies, suspending disbelief and giving us global villany that then was utterly unthinkable unless you were a world superpower... Making stars of unknowns and bringing with it the newly coined phrase of the "bond girl", these films were indeed ground breakers even if there alliance to political correctness was non existant.... But then, were talking about the 60s and the 70s here, so I guess a degree of latitude can be extended....
So, 50 years on what of the future for this stalwart of cinema mythology, remember, were talking about the original "franchise movie" here, and dare i say the earliest example of the "event movie",
So, the question is, Is it time to call time on Bond?,
Truthfully, its no longer the only game in town, 4 Mission Impossibles, The 3 Bourne movies, with a 4th heading down the pipe soon, and a by now almost impossible to keep up with slew of big budget effects laiden movies (good, bad or otherwise) banging on your movie going front door, looking for your well earned buck, are all out there with every penny up on the screen.... For me at least, the magic of Bond lies in the past, the Connery (and Dalton) years if im to be honest, though thats a matter of personal preferance...
We have neither seen nor heard anything with regard to a follow up to the Daniel Craig second outing, (quantum of solice), Im beginning to wonder if we will... There have been some truely magical moments in the last 50 years, but im inclined to let Bond hang up the tux, put the walther ppk in the safe, and settle down with his favorite carpet slippers and a mug of cocoa.....A bit like me, and perhaps watch "A View To a Kill", and drool over Grace Jones one more time........
Ive seen dozens of these "Downfall spoofs", this is up there with the best of them... Who cobbled this one together i wonder?.... Great laugh, thanks a lot Fifi....
There are 2 guys sitting at a bar in a manhatten hotel, the first guy says, "bartender, give me a pint of that magic beer"... Bartender obliges and gives the beer over to the fella... He drinks it down in one, gets off his stool, runs up 4 flights of stairs at lightening speed, throws open the 4th floor balcony windows, jumps off and flies around the manhatten skyline for 10 minutes before coming to a perfect landing outside the bar and taking his seat once more... the second guy is dumbstruck by this amazing display and orders the bartender to give him a pint of the same... Again, the bardender obliges, the second guy knocks it back in one, gets off the bar stool, hurtles up the same 4 flights, flings himself out the same balcony window and falls to earth with a sickening thud, dead as you like... The bartender looks to the first guy and says..."dya know what, sometimes Superman you can be a right cu*t"....
Ill probibly drop the odd film review or opinin from time to time on here, if i think the subject warrants it.... OK so, have a good day there yourself...
The most talked about "horror flick" in bloody ages.... And why not?, with Joss Weadon (buffy / firefly / angel) and Drew Goddard (cloverfield) at the writing and directing controls this was never going to be a by the numbers horror flick.... Ill not give the plot up, for to do so would spoil what is the most original take on every horror film of the last 30 years, But comparisons with Michael Creighton,s classic 70s future shocker "west world" and more recent fare like sleeper hit "my little eye" are very much in abundance... Weadon and Goddard know there film fokelore in the same way Kevin Williamson and Wes Craven did back in 1996 when they unleashed "scream" on to an unsuspecting audience.... Suffice to say, "Cabin" is as good as the hype that preceedes it and then some, There are some jumps and shocks, but tame by todays (Saw franchise anyone?) standards.... What this film delights in is its homage's to some classic and lesser known films of the last 30 years (while adding some thoroughly original new and genuinely funny twists to what has become of late a tired and well worn genre)... Honestly, film buffs will love the challenge of "name that crib", (as in copy, not a gangsta rappers house you understand).... I could bang on, but then folks might just be inclined to skip reading, so, if your looking for something utterly mad and with an ending that is quite the most original this centuary, go see....
Been on self imposed exile from here because of involvement with a nice lady just around the end of last year, however, things have gone back to "normal" and im back to plague all you good people with my biggoted, narrow minded, jaded and generally poisionous comments.... Geez, its good to be amoung friends again....
EGR valve will very likely be clogged in 2.2 dci...Shared tech with renault diesels... Bad fuel can cause damage to fuel pump stepper valve on common rail diesels (pretty much anything post 04), the stepper can be removed and inspected for rust, mind any o ring seals on removal... Re stalling, another thought, clean the throttle body, common with most vehicles, petrol and diesel, high milage and something that doesn't get attened to in a service.... Lighting fault...Assume you have checked the bulbs, If so, have main light switch checked and relay...UCH and or UPC rarely give trouble unless water damaged, then a host of electrical faults would arise... Low power can also be attribured to turbo failure, common on 2.2 dci...Remove turbo pipe and look for copious amounts of oil in pipe and intercooler... EOBD (solus and similar generic testers) will not give sufficient info on electrical / sensor faults, vehicle systems will need checking with "CLIP" (renault) or similar nissan dedicated diagnostic tool...
But a better bet is to download "U torrent 3.0", then source your material through "isohunt"... Its changed the way I watch and aquire films and music... I havn't purchaced anything in the last year since even the hardest stuff to find has been a breeze with those two sites...(thanks to Sativa Soul for the heads up!)...
Emerson was the business in the early 70s, but worth rembering also...
Eddie Jobson...UK / Curved Air / Roxy Music... Chick Corea...RTF / Electric Band... Tommy Mars...Frank Zappa... Tony Banks...Genesis... Jan Hammer...Mahavishnu Orchestra... Josef Zawinul...Weather Report... John Novello...Niacin... Rio Okamoto...Spocks Beard... Neal Morse...Spocks Beard / Testamony / Transatlantic... Rick Wakeman...Yes / Solo... Trent Gardner...Magellan... Gem Godfrey...Frost*... Hiromi Uheria...Sonicbloom / solo... Barbera Dennerlein...Jazz soloist... Jimmy "the cat" Smith...The Godfather of Hammomd Players... James Taylor...JTQ (acid jazz hammond organist, not the singer songwriter)... Robin Lumly...Brand X... Jan Schellas...Camel / Caravan... Robert John Godfrey...The Enid / Barcley James Harvest... Roger Powell...Todd Rundgrens Utopia... Mike Lindupp...Level 42...
Riley RME 2.2 litre (WW2 classic)...1942... Daimler Dart (E type wannabe, and a bloody close thing to)...1966... Jaguar E Type...60s... Jaguar Mk 2...(inspector morse jag)...60s... Triumph TR4 hardtop (last classic brit roadster)...1968... Rover 3.5 P4 (with lowered roof line, margret thatchers car of choice)) v8...1975... Citroen DS pallas (Charles de,gauls runaround)...1975... Borgward Isabella...some time in the 50s... Mercedes Gullwing coupe...as above... Trabant (any eastern block peasant)...50s onward... Renault Caravelle or R8 gordini (galic style was never bettered with caravelle, and R8G was a wolf in a shoe box))...late 50s through 60s... Fiat 500 arbath (roller skate on steroids)...60s through 70s... Volvo p 1800 hardtop (the saints car)...60s... Reliant Scimitar (and to think it was a plastic granada)...70s...
Nothing built after the 80s hold any appeal for me...Well, perhaps my Twingo!...
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RE: Horror movies
If you like revenge type thrillers, look up "death sentence" starring Kevin Bacon, this was the follow up film from James Wan, whos first film Saw (remember that) created a whole new horror franchise by itself....Away from that there is a stone cold classic, "hellraiser" (1987 i think) by Clive Barker, steer clear of the rubbish follow ups, the original is in a class of its own, and i bet no-one here has ever heard of it...
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